Music app in iOS7 - glitch?

I do not have Apple Radio (is that an iPhone 5 thing? I'm 4S), either so that is not the problem.

I've had this problem even before iOS7. I thought it was an iOS6 problem that would be solved by 7 but nope.

If you have ios7, you have Apple Radio. It's now part of the Music App and I don't believe it can be disabled.

Anyway, what I said to do did not fix my problem. I still have the issue of it not remembering what I was listening to and starting random music when I try to resume. It seems to be worst when I go betwen headphones and blutooth.

This only started happening to me on ios7, before I upgraded it worked perfectly.

I have 4s with the new Ios. Since I suspected the radio feature, I clicked through on the opening screen as if I wanted to use it so it is not asking me if I want to try it...the Radio is now just an option on my music. I tried a few changes with headphones, calls, trips in the car and no issue. But I was not as scinetific as figuring out how to make the problem occur before making changes.

Then I upgraded to the latest ios 7.0.4 and it still is not foregetting. I can't say it is fixed becasue before I would go several days without listening to music then it would forget. So maybe I will check back in a week or so.

Nick

Hi all.

I also have a similar issue. All I really ever do is go to all songs and hit shuffle all songs.

What happens to me is that it will (occasionally) when I come back to listen from where I was up to it will go back to an earlier spot in the random playlist. So this just happened now and it took me back to where I was up to this morning when I left the house, so a good 20-30 songs. I am on a 4S with latest version and never had this issue in iOS6 either. I realise there are starving children on this planet and I'm here whinging about my iPhone not playing my music right, but I can't say it doesn't still frustrate me.

ios7 is the worst new product line since New Coke. Why can't iTunes remember what song it was playing? Why does it always start from scratch? I do not use bluetooth, a radio/clock docking station, or anything else but my ear buds to listen to songs on my phone. Has Apple ever acknowledged this flaw and are they planning to ever get it fixed?

And while they're fixing things, how about giving me my legal pad back for Notes?

I've also had this problem since iOS 6, but it seems more persistent in 7. Between this and issues with my desktop iTunes (I can never just grab a few quick songs and go; it's always at least a 45 min ordeal, usually longer - transferring purchases, waiting to transfer purchases, deciding what purchases to transfer, etc), I ended up deleting all the music from my 4s. My car radio has a USB port that will play music from a flash drive so I'll set that up before I put any music back into iOS.

I agree that iOS 7 is a lousy, buggy mess. I would downgrade in a heartbeat if it were possible without jumping through many hoops. What's happened to Apple?

I've been struggling with this since upgrading to iOS 7, first on my 4S, then after purchasing a 5S. If I disconnect the headset while listening to a playlist, when I reconnect the headset and press "Play", it jumps to a random song. If I go into "Now Playing", it shows all songs, and has turned on "Repeat All" and "Shuffle All". The music app itself had not been closed, but this happens on a daily basis for me. I listened to a music playlist while working out this morning, disconnected the headset to eat breakfast, and then when I reconnected the headset to start listening again about an hour later, it reverted back to all songs (listed by Song Title), and all are shuffled. This is very frustrating, as I *only* listen to either complete albums or playlists. I never really want to listen to all tracks by an artist, or in a genre... I either want a specific album, or I have playlists for everything else (driving, working out, etc.).

Why would Apple screw up the music player so badly? I can see adding the iTunes Radio "feature", but why so thoroughly change the rest of the functionality? I don't get it, and I definitely don't approve...

I've had this issue since ios6 along with many others.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4385600?start=0&tstart=0

It's a joke, I doubt they will ever fix it.

I've got a 99c app called Audyssey and it remembers the exact position of the last song I listened to a week later.

Just got the iPhone 5C and was annoyed to find it did not remember the song I was last on when plugging in my phone to the car stereo through USB. I saw that many people on this board had the same irritations. I like to play through all my songs alphabetically as I feel the shuffle function is not very random. Some songs would play more often than others. I found with IOS7 that if I played my songs from the "Songs" list it would not remember where I last left off, it would play the first song in the "Songs" list everytime. If I play from a playlist, then it did remember where I left off. So I fixed my issue by putting all my songs in one giant playlist, arrange them alphabetically in iTunes before I sync, and then play the playlist and it worked. I can still sort by artist, album, genre, compilation, composers or song name if I am looking for a particular song or album or artist, but by having one giant playlist with all my songs in it, it remembers where I last left off.

The advantage of IOS7 is that it still remembers which song was last playing even after playing a different type of media, like a youtube video. My iPhone 4S would forget the last song played if I played any other type of media.

I listen to audio books a lot and have this same problem. When the phone reverts to the security screen after its timeout and the home button is pressed, the music player reverts to an incorrect position (sometimes the beginning but more often an older fixed point). This is replicable. If the music player is still showing you can actually see it reset the position when pressing the home.

This is very frustrating in an audio book because the position control is not really designed for long pieces - it is very hard to reposition to the correct place.

A frustrating workaround that usually works is to attempt to:

a) ensure the player is NOT in the foreground after starting

b) when finished playing on the app, bring it to the foreground, pause, then quite the app altogether (double press home and swipe up). This seems to keep position better.

Of course, such a process undermines the claim of it being simple to use!

Very irritating, so it would be good to see this long-standing issue fixed. I'm on IOS 7.0.4.

I listen to audiobooks on my ipod and am having the same problem. It is driving me nuts.

My update is that I can usually get back to the last song played by ignoring the pull-up menu on the login screen, going to the music app, clicking "now playing" then play. That consistently gets me to at least the start of the last song I played, though sometimes where I left off. A long workaround, though, to do every time -- but it shows that somewhere there is memory but just not translating to the pull-up controller.

If I use the pull up menu on the login screen it only rarely remembers where I have been (even if I have not been using the phone all day since pulling out the earphone plug). Pushing play there usually starts the first song I played on a shuffle (even if that song was many songs before), so I have to go back in and restart the shuffle from a different song).

Anyway, I hope this provides some information about what is buggy that Apple can use to fix it. It would be nice if Apple would post a comment telling us they are aware of this issue and working on it ...

Thanks, the "now playing" works if I do not open another app after I pause. If I open another app in the interim it goes back to where I started listening the previous session. I am listening under Genre, Artist, Album. I used to just make playlists in itunes on the computer then upload to the ipod. That was a 4th gen. I used to make a smart playlist and will try again.

This is really weird, it's working fine now even when I pull out the headphone jack without pausing, and not just for the smart playlists.